Upgrading The Bios; Recovering The Bios - Intel SE440BX - Desktop Board Motherboard Product Manual

Upgrading the BIOS

1. Boot the computer with the BIOS upgrade diskette in drive A. The flash memory update
utility screen appears.
2. Select
Update Flash Memory From a File
3. Select
Update System BIOS
4. Use the arrow keys to select the correct
5. When the utility asks for confirmation that you want to flash the new BIOS into memory,
select
Continue with Programming
6. When the utility displays the message
.
<Enter>
7. As the computer boots, check the BIOS identifier (version number) to make sure the upgrade
was successful.
8. To enter the BIOS Setup program, press
Press <F2> Key if you want to run SETUP
9. For proper operation, load the BIOS Setup program defaults. To load the defaults, press
10. To accept the defaults, press
11. In Setup, set the options to the settings you wrote down before beginning the BIOS upgrade.
12. To save the settings, press
13. To accept the settings, press
14. Turn off the computer and reboot.

Recovering the BIOS

It is unlikely that anything will interrupt the BIOS upgrade; however, if an interruption occurs, the
BIOS could be damaged. The following steps explain how to recover the BIOS if an upgrade fails.
The following procedure uses recovery mode for the Setup program. See Chapter 3 for more
information on Setup modes.
NOTE
Because of the small amount of code available in the non-erasable boot block area, there is no
video support. You will not see anything on the screen during this procedure. Monitor the
procedure by listening to the speaker and looking at the diskette drive LED.
1. Turn off the computer, disconnect the computer's power cord, and disconnect all external
peripherals.
2. Remove the computer cover and locate the configuration jumper block (J8A1) (see Figure 7).
3. Remove the jumper from all pins as shown below to set recovery mode for Setup.
J8A1
3
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4. Insert the bootable BIOS upgrade diskette into diskette drive A.
.
. Press .
<Enter>
file. Press
.bio
. Press
<Enter>
upgrade is complete
when you see the message:
<F2>
.
<Enter>
.
<F10>
.
<Enter>
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.
<Enter>
.
, remove the diskette. Press
.
<F9>
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